Human Nature Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. ~ Aristotle
- Even if you hide yourself from the world, don’t lose sight of your real nature. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present. ~ Walter Savage Landor
- Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy. ~ Aristotle
- He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. ~ Oscar Wilde
- He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- Human nature is not of itself vicious. ~ Thomas Paine
- Human nature is the same all the world over. ~ American Proverb
- I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed. ~ Shirley MacLaine
- Imitation is a necessity of human nature. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us truer and more perfect views than art could possibly make. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- It is a weakness of your human nature to hate those whom you have wronged. ~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes. ~ Svetlana Alliluyeva
- It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing. ~ Marianne Moore
- It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. ~ Anatole France
- It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. ~ Goethe
- It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. ~ Denis Diderot
- It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. ~ Fred Hoyle
- Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything — except his own nature. ~ Henry Miller
- Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. ~ Joseph Addison
- Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance. ~ Author Unknown
- One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. ~ Walter Bagehot
- Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ~ Laurence Sterne
- Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! ~ Emma Goldman
- Rivers and mountains may change; human nature, never. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding. ~ German Proverb
- Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. ~ Edward Gibbon
- The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ~ William James
- The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. ~ Oscar Wilde
- There is a great deal of human nature in people. ~ Mark Twain
- There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully. ~ Charles Conrad
- There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain. ~ Alexander Pope
- What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him. ~ Goethe
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